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There is an excuse: shareholders. The more lock in there is, the more the champagne flows.
by spacemadness 1y ago
There is an excuse: shareholders. The more lock in there is, the more the champagne flows.
- johnnyjeans 1y agoTrillion dollar market caps don't come for free. The Apple Tree must be watered with the blood of third party developers so our gracious overlords can Do Computing Different.
- scarface_74 1y agoYou can’t imagine how often I pine for x86 based Windows laptops with horrible battery life, loud fans, and enough heat that if I work with my laptop on my lap for an extended period of time there will be no future Scarface’s. But I’m locked into my Mac because of the dirth of Windows software. Not to mention all of the great Android tablets that I can’t get or the much faster Android devices…
- bigyabai 1y agoThis would be a more poignant point if you had to sacrifice any of these things to get better developer experience. But you don't, you're intentionally conflating wildly different things to defend an irrational stance.
- scarface_74 1y agoIf my developer experience depended on me using an x86 machine, I would have to sacrifice all of these things